Long Polity Poems

An old Greek word, ecclesia,
is often translated as church,
but could also be thought of as a civilization
acting civilly,
as a citizenry
acting as responsible citizens.

The noun side of Ecclesia
casts residents as consumers
of democratic and economic cooperative systems,
while...

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Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day

On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...

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K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...

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I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...

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I guess the candidates and polity saying "no"
to Earth's human refugees
during this their Thanksgiving time,
did not finish their Darwin biographies.

While endosymbiotic evolution,
indigenous to any one species,
can devolve to survival of the fittest,
this is most likely...

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My son, nearly twenty,
living at home while attending community college,
without prospects of healthier, more robust, alternatives,
believes it is now past time
for pollsters to cast aside their neutral professional agendas
and play a more positive role
in educating...

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After the rain, 
the Sun will rise again
we have been in darkness since they arrived
in their caravan of dreams with empty promises of change, 
and constructive untruths, with which they tricked us to abandon our...

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I required my tea cooked for me and assisted since I had Cerebral Palsy, so I asked Thomas my care robot to come from the other room. We could relate well, partly because we layons...

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I am so called the eastern kingdom
who’s not exposed to the great waters
but guided by surrounding civil allies
and a onetime powerful authority
whose staff has been completely crushed
after the first global disaster
caused by a twin fatal...

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Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2020 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning November third two thousand twenty
heightened tensions will strain patience
to breaking point concerning
extreme anticipation common joe experiences
(biden his/her time)
regarding...

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Straight rows of soft chairs, larval eyes stare blank
Absorbed by glowing colors on the wall
Their jaws slack, fetid whiff, unwashed and dank
Arrested minds the blue screen does enthrall

Their horticulture, growing docile strains
Indulge the twisted whims...

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What natural
Is, tell!
The hawk in tabloid swoop did boast –
Whose sweetened-toil doth but
Stink, becometh it
A merry-menu nutriment.

The floods and the woods
Of their own stead in silent-words
– As a sentry –
Sendeth but a sober plea of...

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As a child and a teenager I used to attend a mission-hall, 
Which had an outreach to the homeless of Edinburgh; 
And every three weeks until I was about seven,
They would give the last call...

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They say the virus does not exist. Why?
our leaders politicize its mortality
profiteers make it a minted and crispy business
rumour mongers carry myths of it across the Nile
and the poor are to isolate at home in...

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The archangel turned imposter,
sought a rival reign to foster.
Through a scheme steeped in deception,
he received a good reception.

With his hosts of loyal subjects,
his newfound muscle he did flex.
The rebel force was put to rout,
and God...

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The Standing One
Hidden away
But still at bay
Just as the clouds hide the Sun

He is the one chosen to rise
Fight with no compromise
Set fire to the city of evil
And set free the masses, the people

The Standing...

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The personal is boring
as are my ruminations on the war.
What I need to do I can't try: 
wander without shelter in the backcountry.
Or go deeper into the polity, 
join a committee or a party.

Minute by...

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A religious voice,
spiritual culture,
sacred climate,
teaching and preaching at the lesser informed and unwise,
more invested in monocultural self-promotion
than co-invested in multicultural listening
and comparative discernment,
choosing more condemning pedantic forms of becoming 
over ecotherapeutic reasons for being, 
has...

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Jobless mind, moving hither to thither
North to south, east to west, over the world
A vagrant; silent speaker with self alone
Routes breeding other nude routs to wander
Lonely I’m with me, talking with sole mind
Inkpot, quills, tattered...

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.
A sinking feeling
In the City of Djinns

...Pollution is down by 20 % this year
One reason given is economic slowdown

Happy souls-  worlds second most populous 
A free liberal atmosphere diversity of cultures

Ancient history worlds largest...

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I understand this
Without lenders there are no borrowers
Without borrowers there are no gain
Of debt multiplying
And without debt
No one can buy nor sell again.
For everyone must want
And makes things
Accessible like products
Spilling, and spilling
Into the endless blackhole
In...

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ANOTHER WAR 

To kill another man in the name of liberty
Is the rehashed creed of global greed
To some a country is free only if
It deserves to be 
No thought for the individual calamities
Visited on the...

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Sat alone and stark on a brown chair, 
Not even knowing what to do with, 
Simon and Garfunkel’s I Am A Rock, 
Just an isolated island heavy as death. 

I didn’t even want to be...

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A man who does not know his history
Will never know the path to his future
A man is no better than a beast
If his intelligence does not distinguish him from another creature
One thousand years before Hanno...

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I tried to forgive and even tried to forget but u made a wound in my heart that
takes some time to heal. You still paying games and i still don't understand on how you use...

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